Ex-CFTC Chair: ‘Unrealistic’Dodd-Frank Deadline Set

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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)and Congress set far too an “ambitious” schedule to imple-ment rules bringing the $300 trillion U.S. derivatives marketunder agency oversight for the first time, said a former CFTCcommissioner.“If blame is to be given [for not meeting the statutorydeadlines], you’d have to put it to some extent with theagency, but to a larger extent [with the] Congress,” said formerCFTC Commissioner and Acting Chair Sharon Brown-Hruskaduring the televised Platts Energy Week program on July 24.